From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM64: implement TASK_SIZE_OF
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:25:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140620082520.GC25104@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403122209-26352-1-git-send-email-ccross@android.com>
Hi Colin,
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:10:09PM +0100, Colin Cross wrote:
> include/linux/sched.h implements TASK_SIZE_OF as TASK_SIZE if it
> is not set by the architecture headers. TASK_SIZE uses the
> current task to determine the size of the virtual address space.
> On a 64-bit kernel this will cause reading /proc/pid/pagemap of a
> 64-bit process from a 32-bit process to return EOF when it reads
> past 0xffffffff.
>
> Implement TASK_SIZE_OF exactly the same as TASK_SIZE with
> test_tsk_thread_flag instead of test_thread_flag.
Looks sane to me.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
I take it you're being bitten by this in real software, hence the CC stable
tag?
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-20 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-18 20:10 [PATCH] ARM64: implement TASK_SIZE_OF Colin Cross
2014-06-20 8:25 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2014-06-20 21:24 ` Colin Cross
2014-06-23 11:13 ` Catalin Marinas
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